Too Important for the Generals
Subtitle: Losing and Winning the First World War
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781409011002
Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, causes; Strategy; Great britain, military policy; France, military policy
Description: One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? After all this was a fight that, we were told, would be over by Christmas. Now, Allan Mallinson, former professional soldier and author, provides answers that are disturbing as well as controversial, and have a contemporary resonance. He disputes the growing consensus among historians that British generals were not to blame for the losses and setbacks in the 'war to end all wars' - that, given the magnitude of their task, they did as well as anyone could have.